l.com The Art of Social Protest: “The Raft of the Medusa” and “Guernica” Some people are advocates of the opinion that art designed to influence social behavior is reprehensible, dirty, nothing more than propaganda, and so on. However, it is impossible to present a complete picture of art if we ignore its function of a social protest; the history of art provides us with many examples. Painting can be an extremely powerful form of protest against inequity, atrocity or inequality. Traditionally
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Art history is composed by its different period and each of them creating extraordinary yes distinct artists and artwork. Peter Paul Ruben is an artist from the Baroque period known for being one of the most successful artist in the period. Likewise, Jacques-Louis David is “the most important French Neoclassical painter” from the Neoclassical era. Being from different place and period, the artworks produced by the artists differed in story, message, theme, style, and composition. The Baroque and
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He was born on June 28, 1955. He is still alive, and he is 61 years old. He lives in, and works in Paris. He is a painter, and a sculptor. He sculpts mythical animals, and even real animals. He paints things from astronomy history. He settled in paris in 1975 where he studied art, and architecture. He has 4 films. He was an artist, and he has his own films how cool is that. He is known as the best living artist of his generation. His current work is based on Pantheo Vortex. Second, what i've noticed
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Rosie the Riveter, a painting by Norman Rockwell, is on display at the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art. In this painting that was created in 1943, there is no text, only an image and it still communicates a strong message about its time. Although, this image-based design was used as a magazine cover for Post. This strong message is one of the reasons why many people are familiar with Rosie the Riveter and it is still popular today. Rockwell chose Mary Dole (now Mary Keefe), a nineteen year
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Museum of History This was my first time at the El Paso Museum of History and I found it really interesting. To begin, at the entrance of the museum there are some digital huge touch screens that have a map that guide you to the major areas in our city of El Paso. Then I went straight to the second floor because the first floor was not available at that time. On the second floor we found items from Fort Bliss. The exhibitions were mainly objects from the military with a lot of history behind them
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Identifying an unknown work of art is no easy task. It requires various detail oriented exercises ranging from performing a visual analysis, understanding historical context, and much more. For this essay, we were given four unknown works of art and were asked to identify one of them. The work identified was a painting of an eagle devouring Prometheus’ liver in Northern Italy in the early seventeenth century. The painting of Prometheus being tortured by an eagle was most likely done in Northern Italy
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Art for heart’s sake. The Art for Heart’s sake was written by Reuben Lucius Goldberg (1883-1970). He was an American cartoonist, sculptor, author, engineer, and inventor, was born in San Francisco. Goldberg is best known for a series of popular cartoons he created depicting complex devices that perform simple tasks in indirect way. Rube Goldberg began practicing his art skills at the age of four when he traced illustrations from the humorous book History of the United States. Among his best
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With the equality of women being able to vote, and the rights of African-Americans being able to vote, sit with white people and attend the same schools as white people this gave artist of the time a chance to be bold in every way they could be. To me art is not just paintings and sculptures but it also music and movies. Rock-n-roll was a big hit in the 50’s thanks to Elvis Presley whom to me is the greatest musical artist of all times. If it were not for him and his music then there would be no type
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18th 2017 I walked through the oversized glass doors of the Brooklyn museum. I head straight to the Egyptian gallery which is located in the section Old Kingdom to 18th dynasty Egyptian galleries 3rd floor. My mission today is to spot one piece of art that really catches my eye from the ancient Egyptian times, describe it in detail and why I have chosen it. As I walk around and observe all of the different forms and sizes of the sculptures I am impressed by the way they have been restored and the
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